Bruce Willis has had the weirdest acting career of all the leading stars in Hollywood from the last ten years. His films veer from amazingly stunning to utter, utter, utter, utter garbage. I mean Pulp Fiction, Sixth Sense, Twelve Monkeys, Die Hard and The Last Boy Scout are all fantastic movies, but on the flip-side we've had The Siege, Hudson Hawk, Mercury Rising, The Jackal and The Story of Us all of which are dreadful films. A somewhere in the middle lies stuff like Armageddon and The Fifth Element, but generally Bruce is in crap or classic. So, which one does 'The Kid' fall into, well I'm afraid to say it's the crap pile, and 'oh boy' is this movie crap.

Bruce plays Russ Duritz a high flying image consulted who works for the rich, powerful and corrupt by covering up there mistakes and making them look good in the public eye. However he is single, immoral and everybody thinks he's a jerk, and that's not surprising as he's right git. Then one evening he finds a young boy running around his ultra-secure trendy modern apartment and he follows the kid to a 1950's airport diner that then disappears. So, obviously thinking he's losing it big time, he visits a shrink, but the therapy is no help when he meets the kid again and realises it's himself, aged 8, who's very real and everybody can see him. So what he's gonna do? Mini-Bruce is stuck 30 years in the future, they have to resolve how to get him back by changing an event in their life, but how? and just why is there a red plane following there every move?

While the Sixth Sense was a big hit both critically and commercially and was a great movie, the trick of using a young kid as a sidekick doesn't work for Bruce this time round, the same way it failed in the terrible Mercury Rising. Newcomer Breslin's performance is fine as the kid stuck out of his time and confused, but its just the film is so sickly sweet you will be reaching for a sickbag. Bruce is the smooth charmer, as always, but the film really is unappealing and boring once you start to watch it, plus an awfully cheesy script, which is full of holes, doesn't make it any better.

Don't go by my word, I might be a terrible cynic, but I do like sentimental and emotional films, as long as they don't go over the top. This film stirred something up inside of me, but only very rarely and minimally, mostly I was just bored and annoyed. Bruce is up next in Unbreakable, which looks tremendous in the trailer and hopefully the film will match it. However if it is great then it will be a further addition to the trend of Bruce movie that veer from class to crap, but then at least he's in good movies, could be worse he could be Sylvester Stallone.

Any Old Rubbish (No, that's not a film title)